“One of heartbreak's chief qualities seemed to be its ability to distort time and distances.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Say a prayer for those who are overcome by despair and grief. Light candles of hope for all in their darkness!❤” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“We bleed our sorrows dry on the chance that laughter will save what is left of our dignity” — Psyche Roxas-Mendoza Copy Share Image
“What pays for all this?" "Grief in the face of inevitable death. The wish to stop time. The human condition.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Your pets will never judge you for helping them leave a body that has failed them. To them it is the ultimate… — Karen A Anderson Copy Share Image
“Mark Spitz didn't ask about Harry. You never asked about the characters that disappeared from a Last Night story. You knew the… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is… — Roger Kahn Copy Share Image
“Grief transforms you into someone you can't even recognize. For some it becomes a hard swim to the shores, becoming a fight… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at… — Jonny Bairstow Copy Share Image
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Really, the arc for the first season of 'Luke Cage' is 'hero.' How does one become a hero? What does one feel… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an… — Genna Rulon Copy Share Image
“...our loves ones truly are ever-present. We may bury their bodies or scatter their ashes, but their spirits are boundless and do… — April Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I've made a discovery, and it's that grief isn't like sadness at all. Sadness is only something that's part of you. Grief… — Jodi Lynn Anderson Copy Share Image
“Most of the Times, Life shows us how difficult this journey is, only at Times when the sun clears we see the… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
Let not therefore thy heart be troubled, neither let it fear. Trust in me, and put thy confidence in my mercy. When… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The curious advantage of being able to survey the span of someone else’s life, from start to finish, can seem peremptory, high-handed,… — James Woods Copy Share Image
“Mom, mom, mom, mom! A yowl rose from my gut, my bowels, my womb, raw as a birth cry but with no… — Lorna Crozier Copy Share Image
When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life. — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement. — Allan Gregg Copy Share Image
